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Anonymous
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7 years ago
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Parsing issues with calculation

Hi,   Im new to powerbi and coming from tableau. I wanted to convert a calculation with which Im facing multiple parsing issues as i want a date to be returned and if date is not returned then it ...
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  • v-frfei-msft's avatar
    v-frfei-msft
    7 years ago

    Hi Anonymous,

     

    Again, please check this one.

     

    Column 2 = 
IF (
    IF (
        Table1[Current Location] = "sold"
            || Table1[Current Location] = "Factory",
        TRUE (),
        FALSE ()
    )
        = FALSE (),
    "NA",
    IF (
        Table1[Est delive dt] < DATE ( 2018, 09, 18 ),
        "Data Unavailable",
        ""
            & CALCULATE (
                MIN ( Table1[Est delive dt] ),
                ALLEXCEPT ( Table1, Table1[Current Location] )
            )
    )
)

     

    Also please find the file attached.

     

    Regards,

    Frank

v-frfei-msft's avatar
v-frfei-msft
Community Support
7 years ago

Hi Anonymous,

 

I made one sample for your reference. Here I create the measure as below.

 

Measure =
IF (
    IF (
        MAX ( Table1[Current Location] ) = "Sold"
            || MAX ( Table1[Current Location] ) = "Factory",
        TRUE (),
        FALSE ()
    )
        = FALSE (),
    IF (
        MAX ( Table1[Est delive dt] ) <= TODAY (),
        TODAY (),
        MAX ( Table1[Est delive dt] )
    ),
    "Data Unavailable"
)

 

 

For more details, please check the pbix as attached. If it doesn't meet your requirement, kindly tell me what is your excepted result.

 

Regards,

Frank

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
7 years ago

Hi Frank,

 

Thanks for your reply.

However this calculation return the following error : 

 

Also on line no 9, isnt that supposed to be true() instead of false()?

Just trying to understand the logic.

 

 

Incase the logic was confusing let me interpret that in words:

 

When current location = Sold or factory only then 

do the below : 

 

if date < today() then show todays date

else( which means date  is not  < today) show min value of all the dates

in all other cases(when there is no date at all) show "data is unavailable"

 

finally if current location is not sold or factory then show

"NA"

 

 

Sample Output : 

 

Current LocationEst delive dtExpected OutputComments
Factory22/09/201821/09/2018assumed today() is 18/09/2018
Factory21/09/2018 Expected Output column will be used on Tooltip later
Manufacturer17/09/2018NAsince current location is not sold or factory
Manufacturer11/9/2018NAsince current location is not sold or factory
Sold Data UnavailableIf the date was less than 18/09/2018(today), we would have displayed that date here
Sold Data Unavailable
  • v-frfei-msft's avatar
    v-frfei-msft
    Community Support
    7 years ago

    Hi Anonymous,

     

    Again, please check this one.

     

    Column 2 = 
IF (
    IF (
        Table1[Current Location] = "sold"
            || Table1[Current Location] = "Factory",
        TRUE (),
        FALSE ()
    )
        = FALSE (),
    "NA",
    IF (
        Table1[Est delive dt] < DATE ( 2018, 09, 18 ),
        "Data Unavailable",
        ""
            & CALCULATE (
                MIN ( Table1[Est delive dt] ),
                ALLEXCEPT ( Table1, Table1[Current Location] )
            )
    )
)

     

    Also please find the file attached.

     

    Regards,

    Frank

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      7 years ago

      Your new calculation by logic should work but i dont know why it is still showing the parsing error.

      I see that the date is converted into string by using "" 

       

       

      • v-frfei-msft's avatar
        v-frfei-msft
        Community Support
        7 years ago

        Hi Anonymous,

         

        Do you mean when you create the column using the formula as I offered you got this error message? Or do you want to do some calculation using the calculated Column? As you know, it is a text column, so you cannot do that.

         

        Regards,

        Frank